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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosCyprusOmanEcuador
2738182,34812,268
2748262,40312,446
2758352,45712,629
2768452,51012,827
2788552,56213,074
2798672,61313,368
2808792,66313,661
2818942,71313,915
2829132,76414,133
2839372,81614,352
2859622,87114,569
2869882,92814,786
2871,0132,98615,002
2881,0293,04715,218
2891,0263,11015,433
2901,0153,17415,647
2911,0093,24015,860
2911,0143,30716,072
2921,0233,37516,282
2931,0363,44416,489
2941,0503,51216,693
2941,0623,58216,894
2951,0723,65117,093
2951,0873,69617,288

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Cyprus, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.